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The currency weakened to beyond 50 Egyptian pounds to the dollar - far beyond previous records - from about 30.85 pounds, a level Egypt has for months tried to defend. It closed at 49.4 to the dollar.
This exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling continued until the early 1960s when Egypt devalued slightly and switched to a peg to the United States dollar, at a rate of E£1 = US$2.3. The Egyptian pound was also used in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1899 and 1956, and Cyrenaica when it was under British occupation and later an ...
The Arab Emirates Dirham (/ ˈ d ɪər (h) ə m /; [2] Arabic: درهم إماراتي, abbreviation: د.إ in Arabic, Dh (singular) and Dhs (plural) or DH in Latin; ISO code: AED is the official currency of the United Arab Emirates. The dirham is subdivided into 100 fils (فلس).
The dirham was a unit of weight used across North Africa, the Middle East, Persia and Ifat; later known as Adal, with varying values. The value of Islamic dirham was 14 qirat. 10 dirham equals 7 mithqal (2.975 gm of silver). In the late Ottoman Empire ( Ottoman Turkish: درهم ), the standard dirham was 3.207 g; [1] 400 dirhem equal one oka.
May 28, 2024 at 3:22 PM. By Pesha Magid. RIYADH (Reuters) - Egypt and the United Arab Emirates are still negotiating contracts for the massive Ras El Hekma development project on Egypt's ...
Currency. A currency[ a] is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. [ 1][ 2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. [ 3]
An expedition in Damietta, Egypt, recently unearthed 63 tombs from more than 2,500 years ago, alongside a trove of coins, gold objects and pottery. Experts are also using the latest techniques to ...
The United Arab Emirates is a high-income developing market economy. The UAE's economy is the 4th largest in the Middle East (after Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israel ), with a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$415 billion (AED 1.83 trillion) in 2021-2023. [ 5] The UAE economy is heavily reliant on revenues from petroleum and natural gas ...